HackingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
The Teaching Company Sales, LLC
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Full breach record for The Teaching Company Sales, LLC →The Teaching Company Sales, LLC (dba The Great Courses) disclosed unauthorized network access between Nov 8-24, 2023. Investigation confirmed access to files containing names and potentially other personal info. The company engaged forensic specialists, notified law enforcement, and offered 12-24 months of credit monitoring. Approximately 8 Rhode Island residents were identified as impacted.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday36 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident
A leak claim by akira about this victim predates this filing by 217 days.View originating leak claim
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- bd_b0f85b0a81e061e6Leak Siteakirafiled 2023-12-12(217d gap)Verified
Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_0eef38394734f22aMaine State AGfiled 2024-07-16Candidate
- bd_ba087ee1074b88bbMontana State AGfiled 2024-07-16Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-07-16-teaching-company-sales-dba-great-courses-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jul 16, 2024
- Raw hash
- ef94b4264e90e07e0230a6dd78ac238d575b3f262a44171bf8d86f48a63a4723
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Teaching Company Sales, LLCnorm: the teaching company sales
- Domain
- thegreatcourses.com
Victim entity
- Name
- The Teaching Company Sales, LLCnorm: the teaching company sales
- Domain
- thegreatcourses.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 8, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jul 16, 2024
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- notified federal law enforcementnotifying regulators, as necessary
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 36 weeks(251 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bdayLeak >180d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.